4.02.2012

Back from the Dead

Hello blog world- some may thing I have died
When in fact school has taken over my beautiful life and tried its best to kill me. 
It almost has once or twice... 
but some how I come out swinging. 
So lets play a game of catch up followed by the promise to be a better blogger. 
Which dear bloggers I do sincerely mean ever time..... 
and yet somehow every time we loop back into this dreadful circle. 
Hopefully history doesn't repeat itself again.  


OK So Presidents day weekend Julie, Caitlin and I took a very sporadic trip (but I wouldn't want it any other way) to San Clemente!  We packed each day of this full of fun filled activities. Which I might add missed one of my favorite activities.. sleep! Which oddly enough I was totally ok with!
Thursday we did a full day 10am to Midnight stint to Disneyland. We all know my feeling towards anything Disneyland, and luckily Julie and Caitlin shared my passion! We made sure that we ate at the Blue Bayou, Saw the World of Color and somehow we managed to make the day a marathon. We were always about to miss the show or are reservations at places and we would always be at the complete opposite end of the different park, so we would have to run to make anything. This was funny at the beginning of the day when I had the energy, but towards the end of the day I had had it and so had my body. It was not prepared for this, I was clearly not trained for this! So as Julie and Caitlin ran ahead I yelled out "I'm out!" Caitlin looked back and without missing a beat yelled "Never Say Never, Come on, JUSTIN BIEBER!" 
Ok please remember we are in DISNEYLAND as all the children are looking around for Justin Bieber I just glare at her and yell back "I'm OUT, see you never JB!" hahaha Needless to say I think we broke every young persons heart and made it to the show on time.

The next day we drove to LA and took a work out class by THE ONE, THE ONLY...... wait for it RICHARD SIMMIONS!!! I had no idea he was still alive let alone even taught anymore. 
This man is amazing! He literally kicked my ass and had me sweating my butt off! He was such an amazing motivator also yelling "Is that guacamole on your ass?" "Do you want to be alone for the rest of your life?" "You fed it, you lift it!" "Am I at Sea World?" He also told us his back story and how he got into aerobics and almost had me into tears. Then he was  right back to chatting with us LDS girl from Utah in the front! I die, he told us we were pretty! Shut up Richard, i love you! hahaha here is a link of a video of the class we were at and you can see us! At the end of the class he stays and signs autographs and takes pictures with everyone. He is so sweet, nice and I adore him! P.S he is only 64... true story! 


Needless to say after that class since it was literally on Rodeo Drive we walked around for a bit forgetting that we dressed in 80's attire for Richards class and went shopping. Judge me I dare you! We also got dresses up and went and had "Tea Time" because we are super classy and it was delightful! 
The trip was fun but way to fast.... Miss it so much. Here are a few pictures... 
 The new Ariel ride... Yeah we loved it and sang along with all the songs
 such a beautiful day
 the lunch we barely made it to, but it was AMAZING

 Juju got the one thing she had wanted all day
 World of Color- the show we made it to, where Im sure all the kids were looking for JB
 The one the only.... 
 My BFF Richard Simmons
 Rodeo Drive
 Yes I am dress to impress... and Juju is stalking me haha
 The class tea room





Then it was back to school. What is currently trying to kill me is my Math class. I have even gone to the extremes of enlisting my 2 favorite cousins and one of there girlfriends and my old sister in forming what we now call Math Club. We meet twice a week and teach me math. If not for them I would be failing Math. I owe them everything! LOVE YOU ALL! 

Then Spring break came along, HOORAY!  I had the privilege to go on a cruise with my mother and sister to the Caribbean! We ate a ton, slept ( mom slept at least 14 hrs a day- not a joke) and laid out, but you would never know because mom only brought SPF 1000 so we all came back looking super white...  read books, just over all a way relaxing time. I went and swam with a Sea Lion (because no one else in the family wanted to, can you believe that? crazy people!) We also made friends with this family from Alabama who had this little girl who was 11 named Lizzie and super smart! We had dinner with them twice and each time we played mind teasers (that I always sucked at) and had some way fun girl chat. I love that girl, we even exchanged emails to keep in touch.




 My mom had no idea what Senior Frogs was haha 
Oh sweet innocent mom.. its a bar...
What? with a frog?
look at how cute he is! Oh and these sweet girls adopted me as there new friend for the entire day! love Amy who is in the middle and Steph to the right. 

 My new BF

 Airplane! 
Turtle love
 Look at that water! Take me back please!
So funny!

SO that is the catch up in a nut shell. I will try to be better but if I fail blame the Math class, because I am determined to NOT fail that!  
-Elise